Telegraph Prize Cryptic #3349

2025-12-28

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Across

1a

Plant herb so spreads around us (8)

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5a

Flower in university fed to reptiles (6)

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9a

Note alien on part of one's trousers! (8)

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10a

Plan to close off border in secret, oddly (6)

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12a

Pass back in game, then slip (6)

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13a

Cut meat ASAP (4-4)

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15a

I take my time quaffing last of ale, if possible (7)

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16a

In the Navy singer? (4)

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20a

Study money, having lost billion (4)

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21a

Figure incarcerated by brutal tsar if everything fails (2,5)

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25a

Choice other than plastic, simple material (8)

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26a

Bag in a church possessed by Egyptian god (6)

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28a

Box in net smashed and hit (6)

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29a

Jade, say, gets on with me when dancing (8)

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30a

Feel the rage? Do that and stop driving! (3,3)

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31a

Dim thing blurred when it's dark (8)

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Down

1d

Rapidly increase salad ingredient (6)

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2d

Work on article in distinctive phrase (6)

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3d

Behind, cheer on from the terraces? (8)

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4d

Cook washes up (4)

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6d

Great queen's uplifting method (6)

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7d

Riches he wasted in English county (8)

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8d

Comprehensive school's head in torment, it seems? (8)

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11d

Plant seeds around room in flat (7)

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14d

Powerful unitof artillery? (7)

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17d

Nutshow to open them? (8)

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18d

Tape in test case playing (8)

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19d

Criminal ring uncovered by a pair of fools (8)

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22d

Put to death, the colour has drained from my skin (6)

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23d

Crowd in front of room entertained by band (6)

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24d

Road in Stockport cleared out, blocked by large plant (6)

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27d

Firstly, dried eggs located in food shop (4)

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